but. louis. the stories that shape the week here on our t.v. a deadly disaster hits the u.s. just days before the presidential vote we'll look at how the election is now defined not just by the two main candidates but the devastation of superstorm sandy as well. in the absence of democracy greece is governed by her two characters. the greek whistleblowers message has been backed by sounds of journalists in the country claiming the government is using those exposing its wrongdoings. russia claims washington a story with peace efforts in syria by urging the opposition to continue fighting as rebels face accusations of war crimes after a brutal video comes to light. it

is eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r.t. with me or even josh well just as the u.s. was about to be sucked up into a political vortex in the last week before the presidential vote the country was hit by a devastating and deadly superstorm tearing into the eastern seaboard sandy also tore away the candidates plans with rallies canceled and early voting disrupted parties more in a fortnight out takes a look at the role the swirling disaster is played in the file rush of the presidential race. she was a storm the size of europe and it might be a game changer for america's upcoming u.s. presidential election early voting was suspended as hurricane sandy ripped through the u.s. east coast monday causing eight and a half million homes and businesses to lose power president barack obama canceled campaign appearances to handle the superstorm the election will take care of itself next week right now on the one priority is to make sure that we are saving was

national polls show the commander in chief garnered excellent marks for his response is my reward for even fema i think it was the president. flying overhead. is my man. vote for obama. possible yet the biggest praise of all came from a staunch romney supporter of cooperation for the president i did states has been outstanding the president has been all over this he deserves great credit if you think right now i give a damn about presidential politics that you don't know me looking to also score political points republican candidate mitt romney rebranded his victory rally in ohio into a relief vent for sandy victims. just because. they . are still being very close but while the candidates attempt to feature

sandy in their quest for votes her victims are too busy piecing their lives back together below thirty ninth street has become known as the dark side of manhattan hundreds of thousands have been surviving without electricity heat and hot water for more than five days on staten island polling stations are no longer standing voting locations are being moved in parts of new jersey massachusetts connecticut and pennsylvania that are still dark and damaged by the storm some experts say the last minute scrambling will undoubtedly leave countless americans disenfranchised from democracy on november sixth it's destroying the legitimacy of the election potentially on the east coast early voting is being wiped out in these cities and states the voting of the elderly on election day the voting of the poor on election day the voting in the of new yorkers on election day is likely

to be diminished through no fault of their own and that will affect the outcome of the election an election now defined by two men and sandy marina port ny r.t. new york. now the damage done by superstorm sandy support of about fifty billion dollars by which have a presidential candidate proves to be successful they won't be dipping into their massive military budget to help pay for it and despite the u.s. to fans spanning continuing to be the world's biggest growing numbers of observers now say this money will be better spent elsewhere there's no more important issue in america today than i have which we are spending on our military our military industrial complex that's where most of us tax dollars go most americans know that this is wasteful spending here they create a few jobs but there's so many more jobs that would be created if that spending that governmental spending was done on

a whole bunch of other things like publicly utilities like a whole other range of areas so it's really destroying our economy in a lot of ways besides reading a lot on this sort of violence around the world it seems like the legacy of us being involved in always on the sort of wars over these last several years is going to be the same legacy that happened to a lot of the other. end cars that just they just spent themselves out of existence that happened to the soviet union in their own this is very wars that happened to you know it happened to the british you know it happened to a lot of other societies that these military industrial complex takes over nobody stops it and before you know it you know your whole country is like an overwhelming debt well we'll of course continue our coverage of the u.s. elections looking at the race from different perspective spots our team is hosting a very special event this coming monday as we're exclusively bringing you the final round of the third party candidates debate live from our washington studios. will

two parties keep us politics a one way street. or will new voices disrupt the power parallel. what if america changes try. this election please god monday november fifth on r.t.e. . a great whistleblower arrested after publishing a list of the country's potential tax evaders was acquitted on thursday but his case was only the beginning of a string of scandals involving the country's journalists well another one remaining in custody after threatening to reveal a bailout deal fraud as artist peter all of our in our reports many greeks think the government is covering its wrongdoings by attacking those who try to make it public. is the greek government using bully boy tactics to cover up its own failings that's the question that took thousands of greek journalists to the streets of athens the consulate for their outrage was the arrest of journalist

cost us vaxevanis after he revealed the names of more than two thousand wealthy and highly influential greeks accused of stuffing illicit gains in swiss bank accounts when i was with them we published a list that other countries had in their possession and our government was aware of for two years but did nothing in the absence of democracy greece is governed by corrupt characters to deceive the public claiming their handling tax evasion vaxevanis was free of the judges decided that he did not have a case to answer however his story is sent a shockwave through an already fractious society we are in a period of political and political crisis the source of the crisis is obvious we have a stream of rates of unemployment we are reaching one might say weimar republic.

kind of unemployment levels there is. there are there is more coming but when it comes to reporting on government business one senior member of the greek union of journalists told me that it's getting close to cooperate all quit a mess some of its own members of the frustrations have been imposed to any voice of the opposition and the media restricting journalists some two thousand five hundred media professionals technicians included have lost their job since last year. and those who attempt to stand up to authority and expose corruption are handcuffed we see a guy to be arrested because he revealed the name obviously you can understand that people can cooperate with the state vaxevanis told me he will keep silent i asked him if he was given another list of names they already do this is my job this is what journalists do they don't cover scandals they told the truth and the elites tried for two whole years to cover up major evidence that renders them in the

system entirely unreliable for the good the arrest of a journalist while trying to reveal wrongdoing has left some greeks feeling that the democratic rights of the road it's here in the very birthplace of democracy peter all of us are see. now as the greek government keeps pushing through painful cuts the strategy is being challenged by the country's court on thursday have ruled out the plan pantra reforms could be unconstitutional that says greece will reportedly have to introduce another one hundred fifty financial changes to please its international creditors but on the best move is a patrick young says it won't be fulfilled anyway alice in wonderland that fabulous children's book out of alice famously saying that sometimes she imagines six impossible things before breakfast well now we've got the troika of lenders and their emerging one hundred fifty eight impossible cuts before breakfast for the greek economy look. the greeks are in this mess because ultimately they spend huge

amounts of money we have terrible sympathy with the ordinary greeks on the street they are being left in a situation where they don't even have primary medical care in many cases but are we going to be able to see them manage to cover the economy or come back in many different ways of course they'll be lucky to manage to get twenty of these cuts to stick let alone one hundred fifty. alice in wonderland economics a little later in the program the u.k.'s prime minister is of a increasingly a push to bid farewell to the european union trapped between the block and a hostile west minister he may have to decide whether his country's membership of the club is worth the regular fees. plus while britain is struggling to make ends meet some are taking a back to basics in order to get things moving all that much more in just a couple of minutes here at r t. the syrian rebels have been accused of a potential war crime after a video emerged a line that the u.n.

says could be used as evidence the footage apparently shows opposition fighters to raiding the soldiers who are no longer believed to be competent the ten that are called asses dogs before they are sprayed with bullets as they lie on the ground investigative journalist james corbat says it's a rare case that the methods of opposition forces have come and sit and international focus of the atrocities are definitely being committed by the rebel forces and unfortunately that is being completely ignored because it serves of course the interests of the people who are backing the rebels and who are against assad to try to portray them in the best light possible so we've seen over the months numerous stock human coming out from different organization including amnesty including including human rights watch documenting summary execution of prisoners torture the use of children in these conflict on the part of the rebels but that has been conveniently buried in the headlines time and time again and even some of the reports that didn't know some of these a trust. being committed by the rebels were almost always prefaced by reports of

government atrocities and that was buried somewhere down halfway through the article time and time again so it is of course and it would be hypocrisy that's underlying this and it's trying to manipulate public opinion certainly in the west to to be on the floors and on the side of these rebel forces now russia has accused the us of encouraging the syrian opposition to carry on fighting against the government instead of urging political dialogue that's after washington cold for a complete shake up of the opposition in syria revealing plans to bring in militants fighting on the front line but little analyst mark papadopoulos believes the white house is unlikely to limit itself to just diplomatic support for the rebels. the american state department are probably looking at a more direct approach now to remove interest now when i say a direct approach doesn't necessarily mean nato intervention i think we've all probably say groups of in syria the americans hasn't it so more comfortable with.

this even possibly american arms intelligence information one can argue that's possibly happen in a moment certainly the russian governments in recent days have alluded to that but i think in in the future they could be director more direct assistance has been given to them so it certainly will turn into across the war in troops by america. and very possibly some other western governments states ironic because earlier to share the american ambassador to the united nations susan rice that she's the russian and the in particular the russian but also the chinese government of having blood on their hands well i think she needs to look closer to home so that the people that are on in the syrian militants are actually the ones that have blood on their hands both sides in syria must people together to try and compromise to try and bring a peaceful end to what is an absolutely diabolical situation and another hot spot

for violence and while the first arab spring countries yanis struggling to recover after their revolution i don't know what's out r.t. dot com we've got a photo record for a from the streets of the yemeni capital still in ruins after more than a year of turmoil. now more news to come in just a couple of minutes here on our. horses and bayonets big bird these are the words of internet legend from the two thousand and twelve presidential debates when a candidate says something dumb or odd to so much fun to make silly pictures like these on the internet ho ho hee hee but the problem is that the person who wins the bait is the one who makes the best argument not he who doesn't make

a verbal slip ups people react to these debates like schoolgirls picking prom queen or rummy talked about big bird who howard dean screamed yeah gaffes don't matter that much it matters if the idea is the candidates present are effective or not but more importantly it matters if they will actually do them if a future can't they proposed a brilliant economic plan that could save america but instead of saying pennies let the word penis slip or gossip celebrity culture would make him lose the election for sure his opponent's army of photoshop would have hundreds of copper fellas is drawn all over the internet by the next day a schoolgirl attitude towards politics won't do anything except make fun internet memes but that's just my opinion.

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mission creep going to take three years for charges. to make amends three. three. two three. zero three broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media r t v dot com. welcome back you're watching our nine hundred. calling on britain to make a decision on its membership of the blog as its leaders begin losing patience over the u.k.'s budget squabble david cameron is facing huge opposition in parliament on

how much the country should pay for being part of the club well earlier this week a number of conservative m.p.'s sided with the opposition in defining the prime minister by voting for demands to cut the money britain hands over to brussels every year cameron's deputy has already warned the budget crisis may leave britain out of the block here m.p. paul natal believes frustration over you bills is continually growing and the majority of the british want to go with a lot of trickle the problem that you've got is that all studies he doesn't say exist in the european union that might exist in the member countries where we're asking to cut back on almost everything we have real estate is the out the money doesn't it doesn't matter they spend. every single year the budget goes all the member states including states such as greece and portugal and ireland who are in serious trouble will be asked to put their hands in their pockets and give multiple szell's it's rome couldn't see blocks. of britain actually out of the states which is in the court and see we pay them with the tune of around fifty million pounds

a day just to be members of the students or you can to account the mega amounts of money the street tens of billions it costs to comply with e.u. directives and regulations so it's been some of the british people it's something we know how to be about to look at recent opinion polls eighty percent of people want a referendum surround sixty percent of people actually want to leave the european union altogether so the people are certainly moving away if the european union is a company that does on the chief executive role be in jail but it's not it's cruel to not to be the reason why the british people want the referendum and want to leave the waves of the financial crisis keep rolling across europe bringing maggie small companies to the brink of bankruptcy but there is one man who has decided to lend a hand to those who only receive a cold shoulder from the big players and that's. sounding his own bag laura's mess has worn that story. if the old want you to follow me look like you dave

fyshwick is a cheeky northern charmer he made his fortune selling minibuses in his hometown as burnley but instead of fancy holidays and expensive cars when the credit crisis hit dave wanted to give something back so he decided to open a bank says late two thousand and eight early two thousand and nine my mini. me to get funded for their bosses as they are done for the last fifteen years but overnight that just stopped the banks just stopped lending to the to the customers and i'm thinking of a done something wrong have they made a mistake of that up at the gas bill electric bill or form bill you know it's not the people that are the problem it's the banks that have the problem try thought outland of them so that's what it bank on dave he says although thanks to extensive red tape he's not actually allowed to call himself a bank and he's keen to differentiate himself from banks in other ways too he offers five percent on savings and he lends that money out to his local community

and no bonuses any profits go to charity in our state. there just isn't a day in every town more's the pity so his isn't a model which could be rolled out nationwide in its current form but financial experts say lessons can be learnt for a healthier banking system one point is clear and this is a point that the bank makes in a way is that banking has just moved too far away from its roots and its basic need to understand to a saving with. mad rush where highly leveraged changing lives that. dates ultimate goal is to bring banking back to its roots no more faceless conglomerates where compute. mavericks make the decisions and the one percent pockets unimaginable bonuses instead local banks the local people run by the

community to benefit the community it's not a new idea in fact it's how banking used to be before the mega bucks and mega banks stepped in and dave still to come to get some political support you have to take save us money and invest in real productive activity to take responsibility for doing it which is not the way the bank currently works in his comical kind of crazy we're showing the way to a better banking system which is responsible. in touch with entrepreneurship which actually could be the basis for going forwards there's certainly got to be some way forwards as wave after wave of scandal hits the financial sector banking on dave and others like him looks more and more attractive one of the sayings i use a lawyer people who rob banks go to prison banks to real people get paid bonuses to stop laura smith birmingham. while you and while you

can always look up more news at our website that would be so easy if you were searching for wiki leaks in the u.s. national archives has the service has recently blocked any search which contain the name or any keywords of the whistle blowing web site so i had to r.t. to get all the latest on that story. also online and all found in south korea proves the trunk is no obstacle to talking head to our web sites for that story and much much more. now a central vote. commission in ukraine has to span accounting until monday due to reported disorders in several polls the opposition's claiming the election has been blatantly rigged by the ruling party has also been overshadowed by scuffle between

supporters of the opposition and police across the country clashes were also reported from the election commission in key of polls predict the ruling party of presidency a call which will retain its lead but lose its two thirds majority the recent results also mark the rise of the nationalist freedom party known for its anti-semite and also almost fascist statements it scored solid preliminary results in the west and landed third in key s.t.v. that was war against the nazi invasion and u.s.s.r. . now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world that guard has lost his life trying to prevent a suicide bombing in somalia's capital mogadishu two attackers detonated their explosive devices in a popular restaurant after refusing to go through a security check anti-government islamic extremist. are thought to be behind the blast. suspected members of a jihad is group attacked

a police vehicle leaving three officers dead sorties have cordoned off the city of north sinai in an attempt to trap the gunmen and august egypt sends thousands of troops to the peninsula after militants carried out the deadliest attack on police in the region in decades. i have part three of our special reports american autumn that's after a short break. was . i was. in the glow of rushes north from going from civilization in

a three hour helicopter three from the nearest village. saying they still one family have been living here for a long time in tents made of reindeer skins. lodging runs in a signal on minutes they also grew up in the to draw but left it at the age of six and never returned they now live in the city in apartment building but still ruined their regions. was planted here as a dancing teacher. was

a answer to his tenses he tells us stories about his motherland. laws in europe to now has a one thousand strong rangy a had when the enemy only saw the light can and most around you it is gather the tens and move to another pasha they travel hundreds of kilometers in winter women and children for them. but the two families have less of a chance to come across each other they belong to different worlds even though there's sometimes a similar. what will change when america picks its president amid muslim rage working the iran tight rope pushing china and russia as occupy anger spreads the two parties still

dictate will their future this election a close god every member fifty artsy. i guess. i work for i think my father is the way you and an assistant to the man i'm speaking with here vice president of

sidonie way district one chris shelton one of the groups c.w.a. represents the rising workers and as of june two thousand and twelve the horizon workers he represents have been working without a contract for over a year except this round of contracts is different the rising is trying to break you everything my father worked for his whole career could be gone within his lifetime so many diverse people when many walks of life that recognize that we are the no not percent of the time of record profits of rights it is the very same people that have made the. rich corporations they now want to you go to will benefit acceptable from my point of view there i said it should be the poster child for corporate greed because of all the money they make and what they're trying to do to us and everybody else at the bar you say it's about saving a million dollars next year but what do you think that this car negotiations is really about this kyra negotiation is about destroying our standard of living this is cooperation is trying to get what they want that they've been trying to get for the last twenty five years.